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by ajdlinux 10y ago
The article specifically mentions that they borrowed the reproducible-builds.org analysis infrastructure that was developed by Debian. "I would also like to acknowledge the work done by the Debian folks who have provided a platform to
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
At a guess, because KernelNewbies.org is maintained by volunteers who may have had their own reasons for why they didn't have time to finish the 4.9 page?
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
It's not crazy, it's kinda hard to implement containerisation yourself in a proprietary OS kernel that you don't control... However, as of fairly recently, IIUC Docker for Mac uses macOS's native hypervisor framework rat
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
KernelNewbies change summary: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.10
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Linux 4.10 is out(lwn.net)
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
If you send a patch as an attachment to a Linux kernel list, or most of the mailing-list-based projects I contribute to, it will almost certainly be insta-NACKed: maintainers are basically too busy to deal with anything that doesn't ex
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
A casual contributor is more likely to already have a GitHub account than to have git-send-email configured correctly.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
It should probably be clarified that the people I know who despise Gerrit actually prefer email workflows. They're all kernel programmers.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Well I'm glad someone likes Gerrit. :D
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I'm not sure why, but I've seen this elsewhere - in particular I think it's FSF policy to number every year individually.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
In my experience, in communities that use mailing lists for patch submission as opposed to just discussion, it's the norm to keep posting open to non-subscribers. In the Linux kernel we use so many separate mailing lists that to subscr
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
You can configure it with SMTP, so it's usable with or without a local MTA. Buuuuuuuuuut, that's still more effort than I'd be comfortable imposing on a new contributor, honestly. Guess why the kernel community keeps pushing
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Everyone I know who has had to use Gerrit has absolutely, utterly despised it. Until I got a job working as a kernel developer I had never had to use emailed patches. It simply isn't an "absolutely necessary" skill for a go
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
TIL the RealPlayer brand still exists... http://www.real.com
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Certainly here in Australia I don't think "football fanatic" would be considered derogatory or disapproving. "Religious fanatic" is a different question, of course, but I happen to think Rackspace's branding is
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
The Rust community has very active official forums that probably get more Rust questions than SO. Alas, I don't think Rust's safety properties can guarantee you don't have stack overflows ;)
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
The words "IP assignment deed" would suggest it's a deed, not a contract, and a deed does not require consideration (though it may include some consideration that allows it to be enforced as a contract if a court finds that t
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
If the material includes sensitive personal information, privacy laws may require that the information be destroyed or "put beyond use" within a certain timeframe after the information is no longer necessary. You might also, for e
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Interesting - here in Oz the vibrating device is on the face above the push button. I'm not sure whether it's easier to locate if you're blind/vision-impaired and thus actually need it, but it's certainly a bit more
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Over in Australia, "social security" is merely the technical name for all of the government welfare programs handled by the Department of Human Services, including Age Pension, Youth Allowance (study benefits), Newstart Allowance
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
There is a residency requirement. But no requirement that during that residency period you actually need to be working or otherwise "contributing" to the system.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
They can of course influence paths, but they're not going to be able to tell some random plane in the Western Pacific to fly to the US, and I'm not even sure they'd have the legal power to order you to land somewhere in parti
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
It's interesting looking at the US Social Security system coming from a country (Australia) where the social security system doesn't have the facade of being a contributory system and is funded entirely out of general tax revenue
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
Move to Australia, where we have a standard audible pedestrian signal/button design used nationally... http://theconversation.com/sublime-design-the-pb-5-pedestria...
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
It would be awfully nice if all the advanced engineering effort being put into multiple competing supersonic programs went towards working on lower emissions for the next generation of regular subsonic aircraft. If we can make a new subsoni
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400,000 ephemeral containers: testing entire ecosystems with Docker(youtube.com)
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
The project would lose a lot by coming under the "management" of any one company. I imagine several forks would quickly ensue.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
I've heard things along the lines of "most state laws do not apply (however federal law does)" before, but never with a citation. Pretty sure that's just urban legend.
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
There's still one relic of this in England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University_Constabul... (AFAIK, the regular police don't have any jurisdictional limits stopping them from acting within uni
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by ajdlinux 10y ago
One of my colleagues dropped out of his undergraduate degree and went back to do his Masters in his 40s. Given his experience as an operating systems architect in the meantime it's not surprising he was accepted without a bachelor&#x27

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